When she is not finding socially isolated rocks to climb Anna Aderton is hunkered down at home.

Like so many others, Anna is doing her best to do her job, help her kids with school, and be of service wherever she can.

She says, “It’s a privilege to look up from my Zoom meetings to see buds on the tree branches and flowers emerging from the mulch. I can smell my newest project, sourdough, baking in the kitchen. It is a time of seeing the reality around me, trusting for our daily bread, doing the best I can, and making our garden grow, along with everyone else.”

Mezzo Adriana Zabala plays Mary Johnson, Hawk’s assistant and best friend, who is the moral center of their world, clear-eyed about Hawk and Tim’s relationship, as well as the horrors that the purge of homosexuals from the government is inflicting on so many people.

In this video, Zabala reflects on how the score and libretto of Fellow Travelers highlight the complex relationships of the characters.

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